You get to hear this first... Hi friend, I've been keeping a secret from you. Not a big scary one. A good one. I have started a podcast. It's called Widow's Permission Slips. Each episode is short, and each one builds to a single permission slip. Something you're allowed to do, or feel, or stop doing. The kind of permission nobody hands you after your person dies, so we're going to hand it to ourselves. There are five episodes waiting for you right now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Audible, and...

Greetings From Ember & Bloom Hi friend, Today I want to talk about a kind of lonely that surprised me. The kind that doesn't go away when the room is full. After Gary died, I could be surrounded by people who loved me and still feel completely alone. For a long time I didn't understand why. Company helped for a little while, and then the visit would end, everyone would go home, and the empty feeling came back sharper than before. It took me a while to figure out what was really going on. It...

Greetings From Ember & Bloom Hi friend, The 4th of July was this weekend. Gary loved it. He was the biggest playbabe you ever saw on the 4th. So this week I've been missing him, and thinking about something that's been sitting heavy on me. Here it is. Being a widow isn't a season you finish. It's a long road. And when you look up and try to find the end of it, there isn't one. It just keeps going. Some days that's the hardest part of all. Not this Tuesday. Not next Wednesday. The whole long...